How to Overcome Doubt as a Creative

Embrace the finite. Develop trust with yourself. Focus on habits.

There are times when we creatives are full of doubt, rather than full of inspiration and enthusiasm like we normally are.

Maybe you’ve been avoiding one of your projects and you’re not quite sure why. Maybe you feel guilty for your art not being as good as someone else’s.

Whatever’s going on — you feel like crap and your art is suffering for it too.

I get these feelings all the time, and I’m just starting to understand where they come from, and how to deal with them.

Here’s a few tips that might help:

Embrace the fact that you are finite, and that you probably do currently suck.

Currently. I promise this idea gets uplifting if you bear with me.

Being human, we are finite. That means that we are always limited to some current set of traits and abilities. Forever.

There will will always be things you struggle with, that are difficult, or that you aren’t good at yet.

And you probably do suck as bad as you think you do — but that’s okay!